Hi Jon,

The path to the script that defines launch, fork and spawn is 

 jpath '~system/main/task.ijs'

If you give that script a read you might find what you need.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, bob

On Dec 13, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> I am currently trying to look on Jsoftware.com and its wiki for references to 
> this, but searching fro "jtask" doesn't yield much.
> The one page I found seems to be a dead end
> http://www.jsoftware.com/user/script_task.htm
> 
>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 07:01:48 +0000
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Calling Command line tools from J
>> 
>> the jtask locale is loaded by default.  launch fork and spawn are the main 
>> functions.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jon Hough <[email protected]>
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 1:26 AM
>> Subject: [Jprogramming] Calling Command line tools from J
>> 
>> 
>> If I want to call a command line tool, e.g. openssl, how can I do this from 
>> JQT? Is it possible?
>> 
>> I'm thinking of something similar to Python's os.system
>> 
>> https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.system
>> 
>> 
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